{"id":60977,"date":"2021-11-09T07:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T07:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=60977"},"modified":"2021-11-09T07:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T07:23:52","slug":"planning-of-cites-upsc-daily-important-topic-9-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/planning-of-cites-upsc-daily-important-topic-9-november-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANNING OF CITES: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 9 November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PLANNING OF CITES<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpsm_box red_type nonefloat_box mb30\" style=\"text-align:left; width:auto\"><i><\/i><div>\n\t\t\tTopic: Harappan Civilization\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The streets and houses of Harappan cities were once through to be laid on a grid pattern oriented north-south and east-west. Actually, even Mohenjodaro does not show a perfect grid system.<\/li><li>Roads were not always absolutely straight and did not always cross one another at right angles. But the settlements were clearly planned.<\/li><li>No strict correlation between the level of planning and the size of a settlement. For example, the relatively small site of Lothal shows a much higher level of planning than kalibangan, which is twice its size.<\/li><li>The details of the plans differ:<ul><li>Mohenjodaro, Harappa and Kalibangan have a similar layout, consisting of a raised citadeh complex and a lower city.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>At Lothal and Surkotada, the citadel complex is not separate; it is located within the main settlement.<\/li><li>Dholavira consisted of not two but three parts- the citadel, middle town and lower town.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLANNING OF CITES The streets and houses of Harappan cities were once through to be laid on a grid pattern oriented north-south and east-west. Actually, even Mohenjodaro does not show a perfect grid system. Roads were not always absolutely straight and did not always cross one another at right angles. But the settlements were clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":60978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755],"tags":[1797],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-60977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-important-topics","tag-upsc-daily-important-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60979,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60977\/revisions\/60979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60977"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=60977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}